Specialist human resources, including doctors and nurses, are insufficient and, especially, "poorly distributed" across the country, with many people still having limited or no access to healthcare services, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said on Thursday.
"The effort to finance the healthcare system is ongoing, and the increase in budgets at the level of the National Health Insurance House and the Ministry of Health is significant. I would also add the funds allocated for investments, either from European or national funds. Access to healthcare services is conditioned by all these financial efforts. (...) Specialist human resources - whether referring to doctors or nurses - are insufficient and, especially, poorly distributed across the country, and there are still many people who have limited access or no access to healthcare services," Rafila said at the "Profit Health.forum - The New Healthcare" event.
He mentioned that there are projects related to telemedicine, and currently, family doctor offices are equipped with many advanced devices through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
"Imaging has progressed enormously in terms of digitisation, especially regarding artificial intelligence, which uses extremely precise information... (...) If we are coordinated and pull together in the same direction... If we manage to work together towards this goal of improving access to medical services, then we will succeed," the Health minister pointed out.
In his opinion, comparing the performance of the healthcare system with its financing, the performance is good.
"Indeed, I also believe that, at the moment, when comparing the performance of the healthcare system with its financing, the performance is good, and what happens in many wealthier countries in Western Europe does not happen in Romania - waiting lists of months or even years for various types of investigations or for access to certain types of interventions do not happen in Romania, and we will work to ensure that those in less favored areas can have access to healthcare services. The programmes we are running, including investment programmes, are focused on this goal," Alexandru Rafila said.
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